Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 24, 1957, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextTTK MIDfOPD lOlIMin MAIL TSIBUWl Mondty, Jun 24, 1157 Iran Court Martial To Try Bandit Gang Charged in Ambush By JOSEPH A- MAZANDI United Presi Correspondent Tehran V A special court martial, unique in Iran's hiF'ory will try next month ttlf bandit Kan? accused of mur dering three Americans and two Iranians in an ambush last March. The principal defendant, ban dit leader Dad Shah, is still at larze and believed to have fled to Pakistan But Iranian author ities are holding his brother. Ah med Shah. Dad's favorite wife. Nazak, and several members of the gang. The ambushed Americans were Kevin Carroll, a U.S. Point Four aid official, his pretty wife. Anita, both of Issaquan, Wash., and Brewster Wilson of Port land, Ore., a Near East Founda tion community development specialist. ' The court martial will be con ducted by Cen. Hossein Azemou dah, army pftsecutor - general who in 1954 participated in the trial of anti-British ex-Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. American observers will be in vited to the trial, to be h i s;f;the Tehran s army divisional headquarters. Charges against the bandits in- elude murder, robbery, and arm : ed insurrection. Conviction of j any one of the charges would mean execution by firing squad Dad Shah, unless caught in the meantime, will be tried in ; absentia. j Reports that Dad Shah re turned to Iran, killed several villagers and burned a village last month, were dismissed as ' unfounded by security officials I here. Extradited by Pakistan Dad Shah's brother and wife I and 20 gang members were handed over by Pakistan auth orities this month, after lengthy extradition procedures. A group of 40 persons, includ ing 13 women and five children is being held at Tehran's mili tary police headquarters. Army sources said the children and most of the women will be sent to welfare organizations. But Dad Shah's wife will be kept under strong guard until the end of the court martial. She is alleged to have aided her hus band in the killings. Prime Minister Manouchen Eghbai, has recommended no mercy for the defendants and asked that they be made an ex ample. o Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Such was the bewildering na ture of ctii last global war, that for the first time in warfare more than 100.000 antlered reindeer were pressed into service and with telling effect, setting a re markable record in the Arctic circle where in snow or bog no other animal could match their performance, much less ma chines. His only rival in the Arctic was the Alaskan Eskimo dogs either malemutes or huskies, vufco were able to carry 65-pound packs and go four or five days, without food if necessary, with out showing any sign of wasting awayriyider the strain. For the beginner, the splay hoofed reindeer is not easy to operate. It it capable of fantas- WTa " tic obstinacy mi a rindeer guide (not driver) is a hard-bitten otitdorsman of necessity. A reindeer guide has reins of a sort but he glides his charges mostly with verbal commands and shouts which never seem to sound the same. Given the right authoritative inflection, the reindeH follows the orders punc tually, otherwise he just stands there immobile and no power this side of the open grave will move him out of his tracks. The Finns were first to exploit the ttramatic advantages of the reindeer in snow in winter and b0Jgy tundra in summer. When Russia's wheeling equipment stalled on the snow-covered Fin nish frontier, the Finns rode atop the snowcrust with reindeer the animal's big splayed hoofs giving it amazing traction and weight distribution; or when the summer sun thawed the snow and machines mired in the bot tomless goo. the reindeer ran easily atop the tundra, travers ing both snow and bogs like the camel crosses the desert. With a string of 9 or 10 of these antlered beasts both males and females grow a new set of antlers yearly and shed them in midwinter the Finns were able to move up to two-ton loads of military supplies on rough wooden sleds for distances exceeding 40 miles a day. 100-Mile Foray Or. on a scouting-raid, five or six Finnish white-clad ski pa trols could join and make a 100 mile foray behind the enemy's supply lines during the long night, strike with swiftness and efficiency, and make good their escape. Unlike mechanized snow mobiles and weasels, the only sound was the faint ankle-clicking of the reindeer as they ran across the snow and glided into the silent forests at 25 miles an hour. It took the Reds more than a year to learn their lesson on the Finnish frontier. When they did they mastered it and took not only a leaf but the whole book of reindeer tactics and threw it at the Nazis in the Murmansk area when the Nazis tried to cut off that vital Allied port of sup ply. Supplied Milk Like the Finns, the Russians found the fleet reindeer could whisk them to any sector of the frozen north, despite the crudest of blizzards, strike swiftly with in a radius of 700 miles within a week, and then melt back into the southern forests before the Nazi enemy could gather himself to see with what he had been hit and by whom. Handily, too, on the way these reindeer supplied the raiders with milk rich in butterfat and when occasion demanded, with meat. Similarly in other theaters, when rations expired often the beasts of burden saved them from starvation and so camels were eaten in Africa, oxen in Burma, mules in Bataan, horses in Russia, dogs in Germany. The boo-hoo department: Dur ing the past month, I had to eat a big helping of crow. I placed Harney Peak the highest in the U. S. east of the Rockies in North Dakota. Of course it is in the Black Hills of South Dakota where I have camped. (And Pres ident Coolidge fished for trout with white kid gloves on, yet.) (Copyright, 1357, by Eugene Burns Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submis sions w-ill be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune. Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Festival Dancers Need Equipment Ashland Marcia Thayer, dance director for the Shake spearean festival, is looking for full length mirrors and a phono graph that will play at 33 1-3 speed. "We need the record player to provide music at rehearsals, and the full-length mirrors are very useful in dance practise," she added. "We hope someone in this area can help us find them." An expanded dance program is being offered with the festi cal this year, including special numbers created for "Henry VIII," "As You Like It." "Two Gentlemen of Verona," and "Pericles." Festival Dancers will entertain' andiences with danc ing-on4he-green prior to each performance of "Othello" and "Two Gentlemen." The group is also slated to perform during the annual "Bard's Hey Day." July 21 and at opening night festivities on Aug. 1. A special dance concert is planned for Suntiay, Aug. 18. Anyone having a phonograph or mirrors for festival use may contact Marcia Thayer at the Shakespeare Festival theater. 4 syss UAM3JWWy'.i ,. ; '..(" r" i M,,-,hrmi&&. K p..',,K . t,i .ft X iWiii m-mtm AWf M mm . w' PfflCEl AFTER 1 PfflCE 1 PROVES! SAAY Smart shopper that you are, you know the importance of every price on your grocer's shelves. 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